Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Strictly Entre Nous

I have two drawings due at Interweave tomorrow morning. I'm supposed to spend the day at the drawing board, living on handfuls of granola and pausing only to pee into a bucket. So don't tell them about this, okay?

I finished knitting the three pieces of Abigail's Norwegian pullover earlier in the week. This morning, I felt compelled to wash and block them in preparation for sewing and cutting the steeks. And then I felt equally compelled to take a picture and show you.

I'm happy I decided to try out this sort of sweater on a small scale. It's fun as a barrel of Viggos, but I definitely need practice. Though my colorwork is fair-to-middling, there are passages I wouldn't want to submit for examination by a panel of feisty, armed Norwegians.

Alrighty, I'm going to go back to the drawing board. And if you squeal to Interweave, I'm sending Dolores to your house to deliver a lavishly illustrated lecture entitled, "Mary Had a Little Lamb: Fetish, Sensuality and the Erotics of the Modern Sheep" to your children.

A barrel of Viggos, huh? Well, I have been thinking of taking the plunge in a small way, that would certainly push me over the edge. And, I am certain that working with yarn and knitted items was conducive to producing ideas for drawing.

Love the Norwegian Pullover, Frankln. As luck would have it, I'm making a circular yoke pullover at the moment and was thinking about adding some "lice" at the bottom of the yoke, and your pics really inspired me. Think I'll do a wide-ish band of those as I'm starting the pattern...whichever pattern I end up using! Did you design your own?

You do know, don't you, that your editor reads your blog? So don't go blaming us for the fact that you're busted, mister! I'm thinking *you're* going to have to sit through Dolores'lecture. I suggest you prepare yourself with drinks and (simple) knitting.

I am such a philistine... I have no idea what viggos are. But Viggo M... he's a hottie. Anyhow, I finally got a pic of that pig Elizabeth, she's posted on the blog now. You should probably send Dolores up to that barn for a little straightening out... get all the critters in line.

Looks great from here. In watching Knitting Around where EZ and MS were discussing the "lice" stitch, Meg was talking about being careful with the pattern cause she didn't want to "louse up her lice" and she and EZ had a good laugh. Such a strange name for a pattern, lice...anyway, thought I would share!

My first attempt at stranded color knitting was an IK pattern for snowflake socks. They actually came out pretty well. Well, I say "they" knowing full well I have yet to finish the second one. The sweater for Abigail is really adorable. You'll have to buy her an American Girl doll to wear it when she's outgrown it.

"...I'm sending Dolores to your house to deliver a lavishly illustrated lecture entitled, "Mary Had a Little Lamb: Fetish, Sensuality and the Erotics of the Modern Sheep" to your children."

Snort!

I had a nightmare once that I had to give a lecture on some really dirty erotic stuff to a group of nuns...and the nuns kept asking really detailed questions about the naughty bits. I always meant to bring it up with my therapist, Sr. Mary Patrick, but I never seemed to talk about much besides my inability to express myself openly and honestly.

Oh -- answer your e-mail. Or have you gotten an interweave.com address and left us little people behind? Kisses.

Beautiful -- and steeking is almost as fun as a barrel of Viggos! Speaking as someone who is married to a feisty, armed (just 2) Norwegian, I don't think they'll be doing any criticism of that lovely work.

Thank you for the sensible critique. Me and my neighbor were just preparing to do a little research on this. We got a grab a book from our area library but I think I learned more from this post. I'm very glad to see such excellent info being shared freely out there.

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